The deadline for Cabinet approval to the proposal for procurement of 1,000 each of electric and CNG buses was set April 30, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia had said in a speech while presenting budget for 2018-19 in the Assembly.

The government told the Parliament last month that as on November 1, 2017, 302 central sector infrastructure projects were running behind their schedule and cost overrun of these 302 delayed projects was ₹1,45,679 crore.

The Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has yesterday said that monetisation of 105 road projects can easily fetch Rs 1.25 lakh crore and there is no dearth of funds for building highways.

The government’s think-tank will frame the policy for electric vehicles, while all concerned ministries will implement them, the Cabinet secretary chaired meeting decided on Monday, ending the turf war among different entities.

The GST Council, the apex tax rate setting body under the Goods and Services Tax regime, had on August 5 approved raising cess on SUVs, mid-sized, large and luxury cars that had become cheaper post GST rollout on July 1.

A proposal to introduce a Bill in Parliament for setting up a Resolution Corporation to deal with bankruptcy in banks, insurance companies and financial entities received Cabinet go-ahead on Wednesday.

As per the suit filed, Royal Enfield has infringed Flash electronics’ patent on “Regulator Rectifier Device and Method for Regulating an Output Voltage of the Same” duly issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to Flash Electronics on February 20, 2018 after Flash’s R&D department made a breakthrough invention of the component in 2014.